[tech] Mac stuff

[Adrian Chadd]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2002, David Luyer wrote:

> My current approach is to attempt to avoid data that has to be
> free'd - which isn't going to always be possible, but in many
> cases it is possible and again a speedup to avoid allocating and
> deallocating memory.

oh, I do this too.

the system malloc is just useless for apps like squid that alloc/free
lots and lots of fixed-sized entries.

The block allocator thats just gone into squid should make this a little
nicer (well, a lot nicer - the initial reports are like 20% less cpu
usage, about 10-20% memory usage since everything is packed into arrays
now) but you should really limit the number of allocator calls you're
making in any case.



Adrian